Two senators who opposed the bill heard the noise as they walked down the steps of the capitol building.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

because it's not a lot of noise, not a lot of kids running around. Everything's very distant.

因为那里没有太多噪音，也没有很多跑来跑去的孩子。一切都很悠远。

波多黎各的美女 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

While he points out that in our culture we feel very uncomfortable with the absence of words, with the absence of sound or noise.

他指出，在我们文化中沉默，让人不适。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

People come to Dolly Sods to get away from the noise and crowds of city life.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

When monkeys get together to kill and eat somebody they make a kind of a laughing noise and chimpanzees laugh when they tickle each other.

猴子一起猎杀其他动物时,它们会发生出一种笑声,黑猩猩胳肢时也会笑。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He got a metal shovel and hit the stone sides of the house so that the noise would warn the birds and animals of danger.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

And the fact that we're always facing some risk of death recedes into the background in the way that most of us don't hear background noise-- that what jumping out of an airplane does for you is it spikes the risk of death.

我们一直面对的某些死亡的风险,这种情况下变成了背景声音,因为我们大部分人都听不到背景的噪声-,而跳下飞机带给你的,是死亡的风险上升。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I had my head in and was about to open the lantern, when my finger slid on a piece of metal and made a noise.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

We get used to the ticking of a clock or to noise of traffic but it's actually a very important form of learning because imagine life without it.

我们习惯了钟的滴答声和车来人往的噪音,但这却是一种非常重要的学习形式,我们不妨试想一下无法进行习惯化的情形。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Then I heard a noise, and I knew it was the sound of human terror.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

So, why should a non-frightening incongruity cause people to make a distinctive loud noise consisted of staccato segments of one fifteenth of a second each separated by a fifth of a second?

为什么不引起恐惧的不一致性,会让人们发出一种与别不同的声音,而且这种声音是间断的，一节声音持续15分之一秒,两节声音之间也是相隔15分之一秒？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The noise of its rockets was one of the loudest man-made sounds ever created.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

The noise of their continual fighting finally gave the camp its strange name.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men -- but the noise steadily increased.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

There were no special materials to block the noise of the engines.

VOA: special.2010.10.06

And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

The sharp noise came through the thick stone walls of the house.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

VOA: special.2010.10.31

Switzer says that the industrial nature of gas drilling, with heavy truck traffic and noise, and occasional wastewater and chemical spills,has transformed their peaceful country life.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Pacific island territory of Guam. The move,aimed at reducing noise and other complaints of the so-called U.S."footprint" on Okinawa will be underwritten with nearly $3 billion provided from Japan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Residents who live nearby complain of aircraft noise.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

But,if a child is choking and cannot make noise or is turning blue, parents should know the Heimlich maneuver, or for babies under the age of one, give a few quick slaps on the back and then chest thrusts.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"I think we have got to pay a wonderful tribute to a man to whom we owe all of this, he is in Johannesburg and if we make a loud enough noise he will hear us and so we say, halala Nelson Mandela."

VOA: standard.2010.06.11